2023-24 Season | Game #76 | Cavs @ Jazz | April 2, 2024 | 9:00 p.m.

[2 For The Brew]

If they sit Mitchell tomorrow against Phoenix, and let's face it, there's no hope of beating the Suns in the second game of a back-to-back on the road, then Mitchell would have five days off before we play the Lakers on Saturday.

No Mitchell or Craig Porter, Jr tonight, so the only guards we have are Garland, LeVert, and Merrill. Strus is the only small forward with Okoro out. That's four players for three positions.

They do have Mobley, Niang, and Morris at PF so maybe they could put Mobley at small forward for 10 minutes and play Strus 38. Thompson would be the backup center instead of Mobley and Niang and Morris would split 24 minutes at PF.

With four rotation players out the bench is pretty thin tonight. But so is the Jazz bench with Markkanen, Collins, and Clarkson out.

Having only nine players available is no excuse to play anyone too many minutes. Should be a 24 minutes restriction on all nine players or the coach should be fired. We can’t risk any more injuries.

 

[bushwick_bill]

Dear Sweet Baby Jesus - Cleveland plays on national tv tomorrow night against a rested Suns team...

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Utah has lost 9 in a row and not in contention for anything other than better lotto odds.

As an organization, yes. But that doesn't mean the players aren't going to play their hardest.

 

[2 For The Brew]

As an organization, yes. But that doesn't mean the players aren't going to play their hardest.

Sexton will be fired up.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

He has the proverbial dog in him.

 

[ClevelandOwnz]

Well this has the makings for a stinker.

 

[jjvors]

It's hard to believe, but I think we have a 55% chance against this team on the road, missing Mitchell, Okoro, and Wade. That loss against Denver stung and we stunk in the 2nd half. I expect a bounce back game.

124-107 Cavs.

 

[foucault87]

Hopefully wr score more points than them

 

[cavsfever]

If they sit Mitchell tomorrow against Phoenix, and let's face it, there's no hope of beating the Suns in the second game of a back-to-back on the road, then Mitchell would have five days off before we play the Lakers on Saturday.

No Mitchell or Craig Porter, Jr tonight, so the only guards we have are Garland, LeVert, and Merrill. Strus is the only small forward with Okoro out. That's four players for three positions.

They do have Mobley, Niang, and Morris at PF so maybe they could put Mobley at small forward for 10 minutes and play Strus 38. Thompson would be the backup center instead of Mobley and Niang and Morris would split 24 minutes at PF.

With four rotation players out the bench is pretty thin tonight. But so is the Jazz bench with Markkanen, Collins, and Clarkson out.

No way Mitchell sits tomorrow. Ever since Ishbia bought the Suns every game against them is a big event for the front office.

 

[Cassity14]

The Sexton Garland matchup will be super entertaining. This is one of those times where the locker room stuff is going to bleed onto the court.

Sexton knows damn well that the Cavs chose Garland over him, and then he watched Garland sign the richest contract in franchise history during the same offseason he lingered out in restricted free agency before the Jazz, not the Cavs, made an investment in him.

Young Bull is going to bring the juice right at Darius all night. I hope that, if nothing else, gets Garland fired up for a big game.

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

OK, the Jazz are starting three 20-year-old rookies (the 9th, 15th, and 30th overall picks in the 2023 draft), a second-year player (Kessler, 22, who was the 22nd pick the year before), and Sexton.

Four of the five guys listed as 2nd string are either out or starting (Clarkson, Juzang, Sensabaugh, and Kessler). That leaves a bench of:

Kris Dunn, a 30-year-old journeyman point guard with a career scoring average of 7.9 ppg

Kira Lewis, Jr, a 6'1" point guard averaging 5.2 ppg for his career

Micah Potter, 6'9", in his 3rd season at age 25. Potter had played in 22 games in his career and averages 3.2 ppg

Omer Yurtseven, 6'11", in his 3rd season with a career average of 4.6 ppg in 11 minutes per game

I could see Mobley having a big game.

 

[2 For The Brew]

Line Is 9.5 points. No, Cavaliers are not the underdog.

 

[Jscc]

I honestly don't want to see Don again this regular season unless it's to get some work in against bench scrubs in the last few games.

We are who we are at this point and we're going to land at whichever seed we land.

 

[The Oi]

Could see Cavs losing.

 

[BiGZD]

This shit with DM is alarming. I remember like 2 games before All Star game there was talk on this board about how his knee was bothering him. He looked fine to me but I'm no doctor. With that said why did he participate in any of the weekends activities? Why did the medical staff allow this? Clearly something was very wrong as he looked like a shell of his former stuff.